Even This Very Long, Super-Nerdy NBA Podcast Is Making Money

A typical episode of one of the most popular podcasts about professional basketball includes no music, no theme song, no production whatsoever, and features, just for example, an 11-minute discussion of the trade of Allen Crabbe, an unremarkable player going from a mediocre team to a bad one.

“He shot 44 percent from three, shot 46 percent of his shots from three, and had a PER of 11.6,” rattled off co-host Danny Leroux. “Meaning he doesn’t do anything else,” clarified host Nate Duncan. This is followed by a quick dissection of whether the PER metric—Player Efficiency Rating—undervalues the defensive contribution of a player who will never make an all-star team. It is wholly possible that no other national NBA media figure has ever spent 11 straight minutes even thinking about Allen Crabbe.